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Humanism with Heart - Marking Milestones

Repeats every January, February, March, April, May, September, October, November and December on the third Thursday from 7:00PM to 8:30PM.

Emerson Thoreau rooms

Please join us for a presentation by Jennifer Kalmanson about how humanists can celebrate life's significant events with unique and meaningful ceremonies, sans the traditional theological trappings that many of us have left behind. Jennifer is a Humanist Celebrant, serves on the American Humanist Association's Board of Directors, and works as a space systems engineer supporting missions such as repairing the Hubble Space Telescope.

Humanism with Heart is a discussion and service group that is guided by the principles of Humanism, a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, encourages us to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that are guided by reason, inspired by compassion, and informed by experience. Humanism and Unitarian Universalism (UU) share a long history, with several UU ministers having helped write the three iterations of the Humanist Manifesto. Come and explore with others the full diversity of today’s modern Humanism, which encompasses religious, secular, and spiritual perspectives.

Meetings are held the first and third Thursdays of each month at 7 PM at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Winston-Salem at 4055 Robinhood Drive. This group is sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Winston-Salem, is free to attend, and is open to the public. Please contact humanism@uufws.org for more information or to be added to our Email list.

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Please join us for a presentation by Jennifer Kalmanson about how humanists can celebrate life's significant events with unique and meaningful ceremonies, sans the traditional theological trappings that many of us have left behind. Jennifer is a Humanist Celebrant, serves on the American Humanist Association's Board of Directors, and works as a space systems engineer supporting missions such as repairing the Hubble Space Telescope.

News

The Fun and Games Committee is again sponsoring a Dinner and a Play program at Winston-Salem’s Theatre Alliance, and you don’t want to miss this one. The play is Memphis , a musical that won four 2010 Tony Awards including Best Book, Best Musical and Best Score. It also won two Astaire awards and two 2015 Olivier awards in London. It’s an upbeat play with a lot of laughs and a lot of 1950’s rock n roll. We have reserved 20 seats for the Saturday, April 6th, 8:00 p.m. performance at the group rate of $16 plus a $.50 service fee. We will gather at the 4th Street Filling Station for dinner at 5:30 p.m.

The Fellowship EcoSolutions group announces a new workshop series on Climate Change. Using the best seller "Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming," edited by Paul Hawken, as a guide, the project will address the most effective solutions that we as individuals, faith organizations, businesses and communities can do to reverse global warming. The Climate Fix Project illuminates ways we can overcome the fear, confusion, and apathy surrounding climate change, and take action. FREE and open to the public. Click here (https://tinyurl.com/eco-emails) to receive reminders if you are not already receiving EcoSolutions emails. We will meet the Fourth Thursday of the month, excluding June and July, from 6:30-8:00. Click to view a video on the project and learn more.

The UU Justice Ministry of NC’s “Becoming a Justice-Making Congregation” workshop will be held at the Eno River UU Fellowship of Durham from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2019.
This workshop is designed to give UU social justice leaders and activists the frameworks, tools, and skills they need to help their congregations assess their current work for justice, engage in meaningful, relational, and transformative justice work, ground their social justice work in our shared faith and values, and increase the visibility, effectiveness, and impact of their justice work.
Anyone and everyone who is involved in social justice work (including those from other faith communities in our area) are invited and encouraged to attend.
More information and registration: bit.ly/SJ323.